Safe Place for Youth would like to congratulate one of our youth, Alyssa, for her participation with OUR CHILDREN LA’s (OCLA) logo design competition for their new mobile phone app ‪WIN‬ (What I Need)! WIN is a free mobile application designed to empower homeless or insecure youth to locate and connect to needed services.

Alyssa submitted several colorful hand-drawn logos - many of which featured a prominent spiral. Her designs not only resonated with the judges but also with the team of ‪‎UCLA‬ MPH students who were charged with designing a marketing campaign for the app.

Alyssa was honored as logo design runner up by ‪OCLA‬ founder and President Denise McCain-Tharnstrom (awarded a lily plant and a $100 Target gift certificate). Alyssa was also recognized by UCLA student Ashley Maxwell who spoke about the important significance of Alyssa’s ‪‎spiral‬ and why it was chosen as the inspiration for the WIN marketing poster.

Safe Place for Youth is excited to announce that our volunteer, Jared, will be generously hosting Famous Sparkle’s Jubilee - a birthday event to benefit SPY! We are grateful and excited for this event, which looks like it will be a blast!

#SPY would like to take today to express our gratitude to our #volunteers and #donors! We wouldn’t be where we are today without you! With your help, SPY assisted 784 individual #youth last year. We owe our success to you and want you to know that we #love you!
#safeplaceforyouth (at Safe Place for Youth)

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Safe Place for Youth’s mission is to inspire, nurture, and empower the resilient human spirit of homeless youth by providing immediate and lasting solutions, one young person at a time. The program prioritizes low barriers for entry, harm-reduction, a trauma-informed approach, and the provision of a safe, supportive environment.